Indie The Girl From The Dumpster

Indie lived on a main road; a highway that enters from a constantly changing rural area and traverses the back end of the integrating landscape of our suburb. There it continues on through the now industrial area of road edge modern commercial enterprises built of smoky glass and created with Australian native bush gardens in an attempt to mimic the environment the ecology of the previous bushland. A pretence of sorts that is not displeasing but for the previously existing life of flora and fauna, not a fair exchange at all.
Not so many years ago, this road was lined with scattered paddocks  of scrub and vacant land.  There was still evidence of the first settlers of ethnic origins, the small hold farmers eking out a living, the scattered farmhouse that had seen better days.

I have witnessed the remnants of this changing history:  On a stretch of road halfway along, yet outside of the fringes of suburbia, an elderly woman in black, as the older Italian women dressed, bends over a small parcel of land where she is tending vegetables. Behind her sits a primitive shelter. Further, not many metres away, just like the setting of a stage rose the industrial buildings, a peculiar and startling backdrop;  both a painting and a snapshot joining past and future and many times I had wished I could have recorded this visual but regrettably I never did. All too soon it was gone.

We assume Indie was born into this landscape  She was part of a small colony, a sister, her sister's babies, her own and the males who became fathers, other females of course.  They eked out an existence in the dumpsters, scrounging for food, no doubt there were mice and rats and the odd human leaving food for them. Some would have died from disease or on the road or as newborns that could not be sustained by their mothers on diets that were inadequate or on the cold winter nights. 

By the time Indie came to the notice of one of our members some of the cats had started disappearing. All of Indie's babies died except for one little male. At seven weeks both he and her sister had gone missing and that's when Indie was hastily removed and taken to our vet.  She was pregnant again but being early it was decided to abort. 
Indie is currently being fostered and is hopeful of a home of her own.
She comes desexed, vaccinated, microchipped and lifetime registered.
Please contact us if you would like to meet her in view of an adoption.